Re: can't use cron

[Kim De Smaele <kdsmaele@triennium.com>]

maybe it's just a litle mistake:

make sure you are root ( I made this mistake once ! )

greets,
Kim:

Colin Watson wrote:

> dko <dko@snaiso.com> wrote:
> >I wrote a script and I want cron to start it everyweek
> >I added 10 1 * * 5  root  /root/update in crontab file and restarted cron
> >when I put crontab -l, it says no crontab for root ?!?
>
> root's crontab is different from /etc/crontab (you edit root's crontab
> with 'crontab -e'). As long as /root/update is executable, what you've
> done should work fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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